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Ethology vs Cynology - What's the difference?

ethology | cynology |

As nouns the difference between ethology and cynology

is that ethology is (zoology) the scientific study of human and animal behaviour while cynology is the study of dogs.

ethology

English

(wikipedia ethology)

Noun

  • (zoology) The scientific study of human and animal behaviour.
  • (obsolete) The study of the human ethos.

    • Related terms

    * ethologist

    See also

    * ethnology

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    * English words suffixed with -ology

    cynology

    English

    (wikipedia cynology)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The study of dogs.
  • * 1892 , The Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Archives ,
    • Professor Mills has done excellent work in his course on "Cynology , the Dog and his Diseases," a subject hitherto only taught incidentally in any college ...
  • * 1951, The American Mercury ,
    • Students of cynology can trace in the dictionary the dog's remarkable rise in the public esteem in this century.
  • * 1985, The Complete Dog Book , published by the American Kennel Club,
    • The annals of cynology make no further mention of the breed until 1901 when a combined Rottweiler and Leonberger Club was formed.
  • * 1990, Austin Farrer, in his introduction to G. W. Leibniz’ Theodicy''; quoted in Charles Taliaferro’s 2005 ''Evidence and Faith ,
    • Now neither probatology nor cynology could hope to be universal — the world is not all sheep nor all dog: it would have to be hylology; ...

    Related terms

    * cynologist English words suffixed with -ology